Soon after the newly wedded Congress-JDS alliance took over Karnataka government, an 82-year-old MLA, Managuli forced his way into the ministry in a dramatic fashion. The octogenarian legislator was so desperate about bagging a ministry that he tried to meet Deve Gowda three times in one single day. When it transpired that the party boss was too busy to meet him, Managuli issued a threat that he would commit suicide right outside Deve Gowda’s residence. A very perturbed Gowda then promptly sent his son Kumaraswamy to meet Managuli and he was made a minister!